During the WWDC 2025 keynote, Apple unveiled iOS 26, showcasing its completely new Liquid Glass design. Significant modifications to the company’s native applications are anticipated, and some developers are likely to adjust their software to embrace this new aesthetic, which Apple characterizes as “beautiful, delightful, and instantly familiar.”
Replicating glass in software can pose difficulties, yet design tools are racing to master Apple’s Liquid Glass. For example, the newest Sketch Beta now incorporates a glass-like effect for users, and recently, Figma has revealed a comparable feature.
In a post on X, the company stated: “Let’s touch glass,” accompanied by a 30-second video highlighting the various options that Glass Effect Playground provides. Although it remains in beta, this feature permits users to modify multiple aspects of the interface, such as how light interacts, along with refraction, depth, dispersion, frost, and more.
Developers and designers are now able to enhance their applications to align more closely with the iOS 26 experience that Apple will introduce in the upcoming months.
Here’s how Figma explains this innovative Glass feature: “Glass is a new effect in Figma that enables you to modify light, depth, frost, and more to produce dynamic elements in Figma that refract light like actual glass. This playground file will guide you on how to utilize the effect and inspire your creativity to experiment with glass.”
This new Glass tool emerges just a few months after Config 2025. During the event, Figma introduced Make, a prompt-to-code utility that empowers users to transform an existing design into a fully coded prototype through prompts. The company also launched Figma Sites, which allow teams to publish designs directly to the web with a single click, and Grid, providing designers with a versatile layout featuring improved control and responsiveness on the platform.
A public beta for iOS 26 is anticipated for next week; however, users will need to wait until later this fall for the general release of iOS 26 to see how third-party applications will appear in the new software. In the meantime, Figma’s Glass Effect Playground can be accessed here.
